"That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song."

-- Margaret Whiting

#Song Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.”
“This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.”
“The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.”

Source : Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.654
“Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.”
“Wanting is the beginning of getting.”

Source : Rumer Godden (2016). “An Episode of Sparrows”, p.107, New York Review of Books
“She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.”

Source : Lynn Kurland (2011). “Spellweaver”, p.108, Penguin
“Why would people spend good money to have my pants?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.”

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